Sri Lankan Navy commissions India-built AOPV

The
Sri Lankan Navy has commissioned an India-built state-of-the-art
Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel (AOPV), the first-ever purchase from a
foreign ship builder, to boost its search and rescue capabilities.

Sri
Lankan President and Armed Forces commander-in-chief Maithripala
Sirisena commissioned the new patrol vessel “SLNS Sayurala” at a
ceremony at the Eastern Container Terminal of the Port of Colombo. It is
the largest vessel built by an Indian ship builder for a foreign navy
to date.